Usually the cafe owner, Kenneth Maple, pictured right, and a few staff are in the Silverline Cafe, While Island Way, Stamshaw – but for a few minutes during the evening Miss Wilson was alone.

Mr Maple said of the incident: ‘Two youths masked in balaclava helmets came in and demanded the money. When the waitress refused, they tried to grab one box with the cash in it, but she grabbed it back. The other youth punched her straight in the face.’